The best of Hacker News, read aloud: what each story says and what the comment thread made of it.
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Signup to Generate a PitchHN Digest is hosted by Xun. The show has published 134 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "UK Greens drop nuclear opposition" (31 October 2026, 13 minutes), "Vitalik's 100 days on airplane mode" (31 October 2026, 12 minutes), and "Serbia elects a parliament of PhDs" (31 October 2026, 12 minutes).
HN Digest publishes roughly daily, with episodes averaging 13 minutes across 134 episodes.
Booking probability for HN Digest is 36%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. HN Digest requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. HN Digest's contact route on record: public web form.
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Xun hosts HN Digest, a news podcast with 134 episodes published.
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The Green party of England and Wales stops opposing nuclear power outright, malware asks an AI model to price its victims, and Jepsen tells ParticleDB users to stop deploying. Plus a former Meta researcher's Books3...
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Vitalik Buterin makes the case for digital minimalism, a stalled Signal fork misses a call bug fix, and a ChatGPT share link becomes an account takeover. Plus a retired professor arrested for blocking delivery robots...
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Serbia's student-backed list fills parliament with scientists and physicians, Linode and Bunny deal with this week's hosting security scares, a library slips past Cloudflare Turnstile, and Simon Armitage...
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Herdr ships a desktop app that keeps coding agents running after you close it, and OpenAI's latest funding round falls well short of its target. Plus Scribd's breach notice, BeOS booting in the browser, and...
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An essay argues AI is leaving site reliability engineers out of practice, tech stocks slide for a second day over AI spending, and Proton's CEO cancels AI re-interviews. Plus a Northflank outage that readers call a...
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The maintainer of Pico CSS archives the framework, saying AI now writes lean pages on its own. Plus record El Niño tides in the Bay Area, a backdoored Claude Code extension on Cursor's marketplace, a logic-bug-only...
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Google and Xreal's Aura glasses move the computer into a pocket puck, and Karl Bushby nears the end of a 28-year walk from Chile to Hull. Plus where AI assistants' statistics really come from, Gemini 4...
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NetBSD adds atto, a 48 kilobyte modeless editor, to its base system. Plus a classic explainer on how H.264 works, people who lose their Wikipedia pages, an app that silences a nagging macOS prompt, and fifty AI agents...
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Patrick Stewart, Star Trek's Captain Picard, has died at 86. Plus billions drained from Binance, PHP2Shell used to break into Palo Alto firewalls, a US spy finding near Nvidia's Jensen Huang, and an essay on...
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DoorDash agrees to buy Instacart for about $17 billion. Plus a record quarter for US grid batteries, a map that sizes countries by their IPv4 addresses, Google's 2008 rule for naming seas, and Mistral's open...
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Cuba skips its fall clock change to ease a power shortage, a developer builds a RISC-V CPU inside Qwen's weights, and an Anthropic hiring manager advises junior engineers. Plus an Android text that drops calls, and...
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Cursor releases the framework behind its own agents, and one team finds Claude Code spending a sixth of its budget on background-agent status summaries. Plus a von Neumann biography review, where programming's else...
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A new NetBSD-based system pins its compiler to pre-AI releases, AI agents struggle with professional tax work, Seattle's subreddit bans archive.today over a malware redirect, a leak exposes 41,000 Homeland Security...
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Court records show ICE's investigators put about 120 agents on Minnesota activists, Apple's command-line tools still trust the compromised eMudhra certificates, a humanist wins an AI exemption, a deadly...
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A next-generation Raspberry Pi Zero turns up in Raspberry Pi's kernel code, and a boot firmware bug puts network-booting servers at risk. Plus what engineers still need to know when agents write the code, a rebuilt...
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Apple's new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 pitches itself at M1 and Intel Mac owners, Wikipedia's AI cleanup volunteers explain how chatbot text now hides, and Discord opens public server messages to search. Plus...
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A blogger updates Brooks's Law for AI agents, Pharo 14 ships, a Roblox-labeled crawler takes 145 GB of fan-made 3D models, PhysicsForums' backdated AI posts resurface, and Hallstatt reveals stacked Iron Age...
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OpenAI's paper refuting the Exponential Time Hypothesis turns out to beat exponential time only barely. Plus a local Rust PDF toolkit, five hosts for an abliterated DeepSeek, Diamond Foundry's diamond...
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Leaked audio has Flock's chief executive telling police chiefs the protests against his cameras are bots, and OpenAI claims its models disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis. Also FreeCell as the oldest program...
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Lula comes from behind to win Brazil's runoff, IBM's CEO says open-weight models are good enough to run on-prem, a Chrome extension grows a jungle over neglected tabs, iFixit tears down the iPhone Duo, and The...
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